On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught <tra...@vaught.net> wrote: > On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > >> Travis's proposal is that we go from a large number of self-selecting >> people putting in little bits of time to a small number of designated >> people putting in lots of time. > > > That's not what Travis, or anyone else, proposed.
Maybe I was unclear -- all I mean here is that if we suddenly have a few people working full-time on numpy (as Travis proposed), then that will cause two things: -- a massive increase in the total number of person-hours going into numpy -- a smaller group of people will be responsible for a much larger proportion of those person-hours (and this is leaving aside the other ways that it can be difficult for full-time developers and volunteers to interact -- the volunteers aren't in the office, the full-timers may not have the patience to wait for a long email-paced conversation before making a decision, etc.) I think Travis' proposal is potentially a great thing, but it's not as simple as just saying "hey we hired some people now our software will be better". Ask Fred Brooks ;-) -- Nathaniel _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
